Sunset. The devils in the Nantai Turret were still resisting, and Chen Zikun, commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Army, led his troops into the county seat after sweeping the devil garrison in the coal mines and iron mines near the county seat.

When Chen Zikun used to be the envoy of the Jiangbei Protector, he remembered that there was a fire extinguishing pump left by the Qing Dynasty in the yamen, which was made of bamboo tubes, and two people pressed the rod up and down at one end, which could shoot the water out more than ten meters high, but it had been a long time, and I didn't know if it was still there.

The Yamada squadron is equipped with cars and motorcycles, and there are still two barrels of gasoline in the convoy warehouse, which are poured into bamboo barrels and sprayed into the gun tower firing port, and the smell of gasoline is everywhere.

"If you don't surrender, you'll be turned into a roast pig." A fighter shouted in Japanese.

There was a scolding from the turret.

"Get ready to light the fire." Chan said.

The soldier lit two torches and was about to throw them, but was stopped by Ye Xuefeng: "Wait a minute." ”

He hurriedly came to Chen Zikun and said: "You can't set it on fire, there are a lot of guns and ammunition stored in the turret, and all the fires are burned, whose account is this?" ”

Chen Zikun stared at him for a while, and Ye Xuefeng looked at him fearlessly.

"Okay, don't set fire just yet, give you twenty minutes to convince them to surrender." Chen Zikun cut the railway.

Ye Xuefeng gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to continue shouting, there was a little soldier in the Eighth Route Army who had worked as a small servant in a Japanese foreign company before, and he could speak a few words of Japanese, he held a foreign iron horn and shouted according to the guidance of Political Commissar Ye: "Japanese soldiers, don't be stubborn, think about your family, think about your hometown, we are all working people, don't kill each other, our common enemy is the emperor and the chaebol." ”

A shot came, and there was a hole in the tin horn, and the little soldier hated and threw the horn and scolded: "Political commissar, the little devil doesn't get oil and salt, burn it." ”

Ye Xuefeng didn't want to set fire to these beasts, but the reserves in the turret made him extremely red-eyed, there were three crooked handles alone, you must know that the Eighth Route Army often had to pay more than a dozen soldiers in order to capture a machine gun, and now so many munitions are placed in front of him, but they have to be burned, it is a pity.

Suddenly, a horse galloped over, the rider pulled up the reins, the front hooves of the war horse neighed several times, and fell to the ground with a bang, Zhao Ziming got up from the ground, raised a bloody head and shouted: "Yamada has been conferred!" ”

The morale of the army was greatly boosted, and there was jubilation, Chen Zikun ordered the two captured puppet soldiers to send Yamada's head to the turret, and after a while, several gunshots rang out in the turret, and then a white flag flew in the sky, and the devil surrendered.

The guards in the turret were originally some old, weak, sick and disabled, with weak willpower, Yamada Squadron Leader was killed in battle, and they couldn't wait for reinforcements if they persevered, and they couldn't hold on as soon as their psychology collapsed.

The county town was finally recovered, but Chen Zikun immediately ordered all the booty to be loaded and transported away, and the troops were transferred, leaving only a small part to maintain order.

There is a security regiment of the Imperial Association Army stationed in the county, a Japanese squadron, and all military supplies are swept away by the Eighth Route Army, from steel helmets to leather boots, even military blankets to tents, horse lanterns, saddles, raincoats, lunch boxes, and maps are all left.

In the county seat, Chen Zikun sent a herald to inform Gai Longquan and Wu Changqing, who were tasked with blocking the attack, and told them to hold for two hours and wait for the spoils to be carried before retreating.

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On the road to Nantai, a force ambushed the hillsides on both sides, built fortifications in pine forests and cemeteries, and prepared for a tough battle.

In winter, the ground was frozen as hard as iron, and only a shallow mark came out when the shovel was shoveled, and the warriors were shaking the tiger's mouth in order to dig trenches, and time waited for no one.

On the east side of the road is the Eighth Route Army, in order to stimulate morale, Wu Changqing asked the comrades of the propaganda team to sing Allegro, the soldiers really accelerated the progress, the Kuomintang army on the west side heard it, not to be outdone, some people sang the soul cavity with their throats, and you fought for me on both sides, and they were very happy.

Wu Changqing sat on a stone, took out a cut note, rolled some tobacco and smoked it, he was the number one big smoking gun in the detachment, he had to smoke one wherever he went, and he was swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the guard Wu Ying came over: "Dad, you look at the cowards of the Kuomintang, they will definitely drop the chain when they fight." ”

"You can't look at people in the cracks of the door, the Kuomintang still has some roles that can be played, Gai Longquan and Chen Shou are both bandits, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated." Wu Changqing smoked a cigarette and educated his son.

"There's movement!" Wu Ying suddenly jumped up and ran to the road, lay down and listened, everyone stopped moving and stared at him.

"It's a horse, coming from the south." Wu Ying shouted.

It turned out that it was not an enemy, and the people continued to work.

Wu Ying heard correctly, it was Chen Zikun's signal corps, telling them that Nantai had been conquered and was carrying the booty, and ordered Wu Changqing and Gailongquan to block the enemy for two hours.

Gai Longquan received the order, Wu Changqing also accepted the order, and when he returned to the position, his son muttered again: "Why give us an order, we are not Chen Zikun's subordinates, the Kuomintang gave an order to the Eighth Route Army, it makes no sense." ”

"That's it, why give us orders." The warriors were indignant.

Wu Changqing said: "Political Commissar Ye, they are still behind, let's stop the devils, not to help the Kuomintang fight, but to help our comrades-in-arms." ”

With that, the fighters were psychologically balanced.

There was a faint roar in the sky, and two small black dots emerged from the clouds, which were the planes of devils.

"Hidden!" Wu Changqing shouted loudly, the soldiers all dropped their tools and lay on the ground, they had tasted the power of the plane, it was really the same as the heavenly soldiers and generals, throwing bombs from the top of their heads, and they couldn't dodge.

Fortunately, only the unarmed reconnaissance plane came, and after a circle, it continued to fly south, and the soldiers got up and continued to dig the fortifications, but the speed was much faster than just now, no one sang jokes and said Allegro, everyone was engaged in intense work, and there was only a sound of digging frozen soil at the scene.

It's getting dark.

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Major General Tian Lu Chaoyi and Jiangbei are very fateful, initially because of the repeated defeats of the Sixth Division, was transferred to set up the Tian Lu detachment to attack Beitai, and then transferred out for a time, but finally returned here, as the commander of the garrison brigade, Jiangbei is rich in products, coal and iron resources and grain crops are strategic materials urgently needed by the imperial army, so heavy troops are stationed here.

The battle line in China is getting longer and longer, and the imperial army is overstretched, so it can only take care of the big cities and communication lines, and in the Jiangnan area, there is only one detachment of soldiers stationed in the county seat, but there is a whole squadron in Nantai, because the anti-Japanese elements in the north of the Yangtze River are raging, and the lack of soldiers cannot suppress their arrogance.

In the afternoon, Nantai County Governor Xia Jingqi fled to Beitai in a hurry, saying that the Eighth Route Army had captured the county seat, and the Yamada squadron was nowhere to be found, and Major General Tian Lu had studied Sun Tzu's art of war for many years, and knew that the Chinese were not tired of deceit, and perhaps the attack on the county town was just a bluff, but one after another people fled, saying that the Japanese supervisors and guards of several mines near Nantai had all been eliminated, and the guerrillas were playing real this time.

Tian Lu Chaoyi got serious at this time, and ordered the transfer of troops and reinforcements, and the plane reconnoitred, at this time it was late, and the staff officer urged the general to attack again tomorrow, and the Eighth Route Army was good at night fighting, so it had to be guarded, but the major general looked at the full moon in the sky and still ordered to set off.

The North Thai garrison dispatched a brigade, all of which marched quickly in trucks and motorcycles, and when they were halfway there, they received a radio from a reconnaissance plane, reporting that there was an ambush of the Zhina Army on the road, Tian Lu sneered, and a squadron of infantry outflanked it.

The battle soon began, this was a regular blocking war, the guerrillas occupied favorable terrain, fought calmly and powerfully, the Japanese army had sufficient ammunition, tenacious style, and seemed to be evenly matched, but while fighting, the disadvantage of the guerrillas was revealed, the ammunition supply could not be attacked, the gunfire gradually thinned out, but the powerful drum beat sounded, this is the war drum used by the ancient Chinese army, they actually used this method to stimulate morale, it is really ridiculous.

Suddenly, the gunfire became fierce, the guerrillas used machine guns to fire wildly, Major General Tian Lu knew that this was a roundabout outflanking squadron attacking from behind, and ordered the headquarters to launch a bayonet charge, and after a surprise attack, they took the positions on both sides of the road, but found that there were only piles of red confetti on the position, and the so-called machine guns turned out to be firecrackers, and there were two sheep hanging from the trees, and the front hooves were desperately beating the drums.

"Yaga, cunning and cunning!" In a fit of rage, a squadron leader drew his saber and slashed at it, splitting the war drum into two parts, and then there was a loud bang, and his flesh and blood were blurred, and a grenade was hidden in the war drum.

The Japanese army continued to move forward, and after walking for a few miles, the car suddenly stopped, and it turned out that the road was full of flags with the words "Mines!" written on them. ”

The sappers stepped forward to probe for the mines, digging up a slightly raised mound of earth, and there was a large pool of dung underneath.

It turned out to be just a bluff, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, drove over with full horsepower, the small flag broke under the wheels, and suddenly there was a loud bang, and the wheels of the car were blown away, it turned out that there were really mines!

False and real, true and false, the guerrilla tricks are endless, Major General Tian Lu is a Confucian general with good cultivation, they are all so angry that they are really angry, without saying a word, and order that they must rush to Nantai before dawn.

At dawn, reinforcements from the Tianlu Brigade finally arrived in Nantai County, leaving them with only an empty city.

A rough count of the losses showed that at least 300 rifles, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, a number of light and heavy machine gun grenadiers, and, more importantly, tons of yellow explosives were lost in the mines.

After the telephone line was repaired, he received an urgent telegram from Beitai, saying that the guerrillas were operating outside the city of Beitai. ”